07-11-2010, 04:44 PM
our clothes dripped
that drooping drip
of little Jewish boys at Auschwitz
shivering in their dripping droopy skin
that lay in hollowed folds
from off the bone
they were caught being Jewish
whatever that is
little Jewish boys
in the bath house
we'd been caught as we swam
Manchester mackerel
prancing in the dirty waters of suburbia.
huddled together we rattled
on a wintered canal bank
waited for parents who didn't care
who were seldom there except
when called to scald or beat
though we never got to feel
the heat that burned
flesh and crackled bone
mostly we were left alone
like little Jewish boys
in the bath house
that drooping drip
of little Jewish boys at Auschwitz
shivering in their dripping droopy skin
that lay in hollowed folds
from off the bone
they were caught being Jewish
whatever that is
little Jewish boys
in the bath house
we'd been caught as we swam
Manchester mackerel
prancing in the dirty waters of suburbia.
huddled together we rattled
on a wintered canal bank
waited for parents who didn't care
who were seldom there except
when called to scald or beat
though we never got to feel
the heat that burned
flesh and crackled bone
mostly we were left alone
like little Jewish boys
in the bath house